Help Lidia and her Family build their own Healing Center

Story

Lydia is a curandera and ayahuasquera coming from the indigenous shipibo tribe located in Peru. She is striving to be self-sufficient and build her own healing center in her hometown Pucallpa. Helping other humans through her deep knowledge of shamanism and medicinal plants is her deepest desire. She does that effortlessly through her happy and healthy live. Lydia was born in 1963 in the indigenous community of Pauja , located in the upper Ucayali region of Peru, as one of many children. The Shipibo tribes are mostly located around the Ucayali basin, from Pucallpa up to Iquitos and further. This tribe is specifically known to have a long history of the magical plant mixture Ayahuasca, that is known and used for its healing purposes in dozens of different indigenous tribes all over the amazonian countries like Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia. While Ayahuasca is gaining more and more attention in western states and is studied more closely to understand its medicinal benefits, many other plants and techniques that are as important to health and contentment to these tribes are left out. For them nature is a big medicinal system where all the plants work closely intertwined and should not be isolated into single chemical structures. They believe that Nature can teach us everything, if we can be still and listen. After a deep intwined childhood by the river, her grandfather, who was a curandero himself, started to teach her about the medicinal knowledge that was transmitted from generation to generation for thousands of years. She was only 8 years when she first started to learn about the magical plants and trees surrounding her everyday life. He told her that one day she will be like him and heal other people from illness. Today, after many years of training and learning from her grandfather and other family members that were healers aswell, she is healing through very complex methods of plant science. She works with so called “master plants”, like Ayahuasca, Tabacco, Ajo Sacha, Camalonga, Nihue Rao etc. In her many years of work she has healed many people from different illnesses that sometimes in western understanding are considered incurable. I once asked her: "where her seemingly unshakeable strength comes from and how she managed to learn with such determination and compassion?" She answered: "First I asked myself what is right to do, then i asked the plants, and then I asked god. And the answer was clear. My purpose on earth is to help regain balance, to help the sick and reduce suffering and I will do everything to complete my mission, no matter how hard it was or will be." Together with her older brother she worked for many years at one of the most renowned Ayahuasca Centers of Peru. But now she wishes to go back to Pucallpa to live and work with her family. She has 7 children and many grandchildren and is the head and foundation of the family. She supports them emotionally, physically and financially and they form a very beautiful system together. The money Lydia earns is always used to help her family and other local people, all while she lives a very simple and minimalistic live. With the new year of 2025 she got an offer for a property in the jungle. As with a lot of areas in the Amazon Rainforest basin, the diverse forest was cut down to clear the land for palm trees and agriculture. Lydia sees it as her duty to buy back the land which for centuries belonged to her tribe, giving all the organisms, plants and animals a place where they can flourish again. Together with her family she wants to build a little center and focus on the old learning and healing traditions of the master plants and sacred ceremonies with the great teacher Ayahuasca. With that in mind she used all her savings to buy the property. To get the infrastructure running and keep the cost of supporting a big family, she needs help. The specific Plans: Get Together, There is the need to build a “Malloca”, which is the traditional palmleave decked Longhouse usual for the shipibos, where ceremonies, and daily life can take place. Water, they will need to dig a well and/or install a rainwater catch system for fresh water, because the Land is cut off from infrastructure. Making cooking, washing and cleaning so much easier, and saving a lot of Petrol for bringing Water to the Land. Electricity, also a crucial part of supporting a fridge and some small lights. So fruit, vegetables and Fish can be stored for extended amount of Time. The plan is to install Solar Panels and Batteries so they aren't dependent on gasoline and a generator, making a lot of noise. Sheds, small Tambos (wood sheds) are planned to host guests over a longer period of Time. She hopes to find people who are interested in her abilities or just in the preservation of Culture and Nature. Helpers are always needed ! If you arrived to this very last corner of the page, thanks for reading! In Case you need any further information, feel free to contact me through the GoFundMe Page. Also, in the rare case if you are already in Peru and search for such an experience, you also can reach out to me and I will connect you with her.